Binge Eating Disorder/Vegetarian

I would like to recommend Overeaters Anonymous to you. You can find recovery from your eating disorder through this 12-Step program. You can still use this app to track your food so at least you can see the reality of your food consumption and patterns. I highly recommend attending a meeting.

Being a vegetarian, doesn't suit everyone. A vegetarian, is someone who doesn't eat meat, or fish. This, will also include any products, that may contain animal products. Gelatin, can be sourced from either Beef, or Pork, and is more often than not found in sweets. It is fairly rare, not to find gelatin, in sweets.

Vegetarian is a very general term - a person may be vegan, not eating meat or animal products (this may also extend to use of animal products in clothing, food processing, such as bone char in sugar, etc); ovo-vegetarian, where the diet includes eggs, lacto-vegetarian , which includes dairy/dairy products, ovo-lacto-vegetarian (self-explanatory), or pescetarian, in which they would eat fish but not other meats. Within all of these, as well, a person is free to make their own individual decisions as to certain items. There are also raw veganism, fruitarianism, Buddhist vegetarianism, Jain vegetarianism, and probably others. Based on a statement that they are vegetarian, to say that they will not eat gelatin is an overstatement at best.

Additional, although gelatin is widely used in the making of candy, it is not true that it is rare to find sweets without it. Following is a list of gelatin-free candies (in fact, vegan-friendly candies) that I found in about a 15-second Google search and almost all of which I personally know to be readily available at pretty much any market in the US. It's not even a complete list of all such candies, and certainly does not include all which are gelatin-free but not vegan.

Now, I try not to be argumentative, but given that you have been going out of your way to be negative about this entire site based on what you call inaccurate information and given that you have already declared yourself to be leaving, I feel perfectly justified in noting that you only made two points and they are both inaccurate.

Airheads Taffy
Big League Chew Gum
Brach's Cinnamon Hard Candy
Brach's Cinnamon Hard Candy
Brach's Orange Slices
Brach's Root Beer Barrels
Brach's Star Brites
Charms lollipops
Chew-ets Peanut Chews (Original)
Chick-o-Sticks
Chocolove Dark Chocolate bar
Chocolove Orange Peel (Dark Chocolate Bar)
Cry Babies
Dem Bones
Dots
Dum Dums
Everest Gum
Fireballs
Fred Meyer Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
Ghirardelli Twilight Delight Intense Dark
Ghirardelli Double Chocolate Mix
Goldenberg's Peanut Chews (Original)
Hubba Bubba Bubblegum
Hubba Bubba Gum
Jolly Ranchers (lollipops and hard candy)
Joyva Ring Jells Chocolate Covered Orange
Joyva Ring Jells Chocolate Covered Raspberry
Jujubees
Jujyfruits
Lance Peanut Bar
Mambas
Mary Janes (Regular and Peanut Butter Kisses)
Now and Laters
Red Vines
Skittles
Smarties (U.S. version only)
Sour Patch Kids
Super Bubble
Swedish Fish
Tropical Source mini chocolate bags
Twizzlers
VeganSweets marshmallows
Velamints Mints

This really isn't the place for eating disorders. Sorry.

I so don't agree with this! This is a good place for people with eating disorders. Last I checked over eating or being overweight can be considered an "eating disorder". Most of us are here for that reason, its a good place for us to see what our caloric intake is and its a good tool.

To the OP..I wish you all the luck in your recovery

I don't understand why people are now discussing what being a vegetarian is and a list of candies that don't have gelatin? Thats not the point of this thread.

I'm sorry - that was me. I did also address the OP directly.

However, the person I directed the first comment to has just been posting over and over and over again that MFP is going to kill its members based on inaccurate, dangerous macro goals, etc, and that she's leaving the site after only a few days because she knows more than everyone anywhere. However, she herself is posting inaccurate information in every post where she offers any at all. I took two opportunities (of many available) yesterday to point this out to her. I know it was off-topic and I apologize for that.

Thanks superkeats- I'm going to add you. And Taragirl- Vegetarians don't eat meat, and honestly, I have never heard of ANY binge eaters binging on meat..... so how does that not make sense....bingers usually binge on salty and sugary foods....

Again.. didn't say anything about meat. All Vegetarians I know are really clean eaters. So that's why it didn't make any sense to me.. that's all. But thanks for the emails!

Wait, what? I am a clean eater, because i am a vegetarian? Yay me..Yay me!!

We laughed about that, too. When my daughter first stopped eating meat several years ago, we referred to her as a starchatarian. lollol

Hi septembersgold, I've been suffering with BED for a while now and its really helpful to know other people who are in the same boat. Disregard the negative comments. Its quite easy for people who don't understand the disorder to stigmatise, judge and, as you can see, be a little insensitive.

Sorry to see some of the negativity towards your post, particularly as it takes a lot of guts to own up to binge eating disorder. I think it is particularly silly to say that MFP is not a place for people with eating disorders. In my view, disordered eating is a spectrum that a lot of people who have ever struggled with weight loss would have sat on at some point on their journey. You are not alone and although it's not a easy, linear ride you can a hold of binge eating. A couple of really good books are Food a Good Girl's Drug by Sunny Sea Gold and Overcoming Binge Eating by Oliver Fairburn. Best of luck with your recovery x x

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Hi,

I didn't delete any of the posts, as it is my opinion the posters where just trying to determine if the OP was promoting ED, which you know MFP doesn't allow.

We ARE all about support and help.

If anyone feels attacked please report the post so a moderator can have a look.

Otherwise, please be kind and helpful.

Arewethereyet
MFP Moderator

please feel free to add me i am not judgmental and will try to give as much support as i can. I am doing Paleo so not a vegetarian. I like to lean that way but can't with my workouts.